Thanks for the insights guys. I was already suspicious about the whole requirement, because I had a feeling this was not correct.
After discussing again with the customer, it became clear that there was an error in communication. It’s the old dutch / French thing in Belgium, especially if one uses English as a way of understanding each other ;-) Their firewall is set to receive UTF-8 only, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t send files that are encoded differently, as long as they are correctly embedded in a multiform/data HTTP request. So I just needed to correctly state everything in the multiform data that is being passed to their API… Regards, Rudy Mortier Two Way Communications bvba > On 14 Jan 2020, at 04:59, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > alternative solutions for guessing plain text encoding > > https://opensource.google/projects/ced > > also > > https://github.com/miyako/4d-plugin-text-convert > > > $err:=CP Get good encodings ($euc;$codepages) > > > $err:=ICU Get good encodings ($euc;$encodings;$languages;$confidences) > > but I agree with Koen, to request UTF-8 “encoding” for PDF seems like a > misunderstanding by the end user. > > I know Adobe Acrobat phrases it that way > > https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/file-format-options-pdf-export.html > > but in reality, PDF has an embedded font mapping system for rendering, > which makes “text encoding” kind of irrelevant for rendering. > you might have seen PDF that display fine but copy and paste or searching is > garbage. > I think that it the scenario the user want’t to avoid. > > 2020/01/14 2:35、Koen Van Hooreweghe via 4D_Tech > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>のメール: > FWIW, BBEdit also guesses what the text file encoding could be. It does a > good job, but it can be fooled. > > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
